Laura Coquis

Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships, London

Laura Coquis

Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships, London

Laura Coquis

Laura Coquis is Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships, based in London. She joined OMERS in 2018. She has 17 years’ experience in fundraising, investor relations, corporate/leverage finance and M&A.

Laura joined OMERS from BC Partners’ investor relations team, where she was a Partner and head of investor relations management from 2009-2018. During her years at BC Partners, her responsibilities encompassed fundraising, managing existing funds, executing co-investments and BC’s successful GP-led secondary in 2017. Before BC Partners, Laura worked for Atlantic Pacific in London, where she was a principal, focused on fund formation and project management. She also spent five years with Lehman Brothers’ corporate and leveraged finance group, latterly as a director.

Laura holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA from Harvard.

Laura previously chaired the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association’s (BVCA) Investor Relations Advisory Group for two years, and is currently a member of the BVCA’s Limited Partner Committee.